Viewing MNIST Images

The MNIST Browser and MNIST Viewer are Observable notebooks that make it easy to browse and view details of handwritten digit samples in the MNIST database.

Everything is NAND

NAND gates can be used to build all other logic gates. As a refresher, I designed gates using NAND. The designs aren't novel, but the drawn designs look nice.

Geneagrapher 2.0.0

Geneagrapher 2.0.0 delivers the easist way to build a math genealogy and important improvements.

Dusting Off the Cobwebs

It’s been over four years since I posted here! I need to create a release post for Geneagrapher. That’s coming next.

Listening to More Fandible

I last wrote about Fandible in the context of their Numenera Longshot podcast. Well, a few months ago I finally caught up with their latest episode. That was after being able to listen to the 100+ episodes at whatever pace I wanted, so it was kind of like hitting a brick wall. I waited for new episodes, but I ultimately cracked. Now they’ve got me hooked on their Soloshot, which is run using FFG’s Force and Destiny rulebook.

Complacency

I got a flat on the rear tire of my bike this week. In the past I was always prepared for such a thing, but it’s been a long time since I had a flat in the field. I was completely unprepared! No tire levers, patch kit, or spare tube! I need to be less complacent.

Back to Seattle

We made it back to Seattle tonight. We left my parents house yesterday and stayed in a hotel in Des Moines. Today we drove to Kansas City and got a direct flight back to Seattle. We were justified in taking this long drive to an airport, but I’m too tired to write about it.

New Horizons Mission Detailed Images of Kuiper Belt Object

Check this out: NASA’s New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of World. It includes images of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule – now the most distant object explored by humans – at a resolution of 140 meters per pixel. Higher resolution images have been captured but not yet transmitted back to Earth.

2018: A Year of Activity

In late 2017, I was the manager of a team of infrastructure software developers. I was having a difficult time at work finding time to learn and grow technically, which created a deep longing to do more programming and learn something new. I settled on trying out Rust.

Thirty Years Squandered Since Congressional Hearing on Climate Change

Going Nowhere Fast on Climate, Year After Year contains a high-level summary of the last thirty years of climate change discovery, policy, coordinated denial, and recent rollbacks by the climate change deniers in the Executive Branch. It’s worth reading through the entire piece. Here is a selection of some of the points: